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<div class="field-item even">Law would help security companies screen job applicants for criminal records</div>
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<div class="field-item even" property="schema:datePublished dc:date"><span class="date-display-single" property="schema:datePublished dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2011-11-10T00:00:00-05:00">11/10/2011</span></div>
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<div class="field-item even" property="schema:articleBody content:encoded"> <p>IRVING, Texas—The Electronic Security Association, based here, is asking members to help make the industry safer by supporting legislation that would allow electronic security companies to use the FBI’s database to determine whether job applicants have a criminal record.</p>
<p>“This is really to correct a loophole, to prevent criminals from accessing our industry,” ESA government relations director John Chwat told <em>Security Systems News</em>.</p>
<p>According to ESA, the government allows various industries—including banks, credit unions and private security guard firms—access to the FBI’s database to do a criminal background check of potential employees.</p>
<p>But Chwat said electronic security companies are not among the 22 industries Congress has approved over a period of more than four decades to be able to access the database.</p>
<p>“So what we’re trying to do is become No. 23,” he said.</p>
<p>ESA said it has “endorsed S. 1319, the ‘Electronic Life Safety and Security Systems Federal Background Check Act,’ which was introduced in the U.S. Senate on June 30 by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). The bill would permit industry companies to access the FBI database for hiring purposes, and also would direct the Attorney General to work with ESA to establish a nationwide system of criminal background checks for employers and employees at electronic security industry companies. Currently, many states have no requirements regarding criminal background checks for security industry employees.”</p>
<p>Chwat stressed the law would not make it mandatory that security companies do such background checks. He said it simply “provides for employers to access the [FBI] list to determine if their employees have criminal records.”</p>
<p>As of early November, the bill was pending in the Senate Judiciary Committee and a House version of the bill also had been submitted, Chwat said. He urged industry professionals to contact their elected representatives in Congress to support the legislation, which he hopes will be approved by the end of 2012.</p>
<p>ESA posted a position paper earlier this year stating: "All employees of the industry need to undergo criminal background checks … It is simply an outrage that a potential felon has access to our citizens’ homes and businesses without his employer knowing his or her record.”</p>
<p>According to ESA, “states are not able to keep up on crimes committed from one state to another, and many private background check services do not capture complete FBI information on which to base a hiring judgment.”</p>
<p>Chwat said that if security companies have access to the database it would be “a very important marketing tool” that companies could promote to show how trusted they and their employees are. Also, he said it would be a marker of the professionalism of the industry, which could help convince state legislatures to pass state licensing legislation for security companies.</p>
<p>For more information, go to ESA’s web site at <a href="http://www.esaweb.org">www.esaweb.org</a>.</p> </div>
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<span property="dc:title" content="ESA supports background check law" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:46:25 +0000SSN Editor15057 at http://www.securitysystemsnews.comhttp://www.securitysystemsnews.com/article/esa-supports-background-check-law#commentsSielox announces new managed services company Sielox24Sevenhttp://www.securitysystemsnews.com/article/sielox-announces-new-managed-services-company-sielox24seven
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<div class="field-item even" property="schema:articleBody content:encoded"><p>ORLANDO, Fla.—Access control and video monitoring supplier Sielox at the ASIS International conference here on Sept. 20 announced the formation of a new managed services company called Sielox24Seven.</p>
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The new company is the product of a 20-year relationship Sielox has had with Excel Security Corp. All the services Excel used to provide for Sielox as its technology partner will now be handled by Sielox24Seven.</p>
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"Our former business partner has been using the Sielox product for the last 20 years for access control in a managed environment. They've been managing access control for over a thousand customers in the New York metro area. They've also been doing hosted video for a similar time frame. That company does a host of services—they're a guard services company, a cleaning company, a company that sells and installs access control. The managed division has been separated and has now become Sielox24Seven," Sielox president and CEO Karen Evans said at a press conference at ASIS. "We will be offering the Sielox24Seven managed, monitored and hosted services to our entire channel throughout the U.S. and abroad. Only current and future Sielox business partners will be able to utilize this service and offer this solution to their customers."</p>
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According to a Sielox release, the managed services company will allow business partners to market Sielox24Seven services to their end users "without the development, investment, implementation and maintenance of a remote managed access control system for either business partner or the customer." Such savings on time and capital investment can lead to improved RMR, according to the release. Services provide by Sielox24Seven include access control, video, remote doorman, time and attendance, key control, visitor management, credentials/card management, background checks and detailed reporting and billing.</p>
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<span property="dc:title" content="Sielox announces new managed services company Sielox24Seven" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:39:06 +0000legacy_editor14960 at http://www.securitysystemsnews.comhttp://www.securitysystemsnews.com/article/sielox-announces-new-managed-services-company-sielox24seven#comments